This master disc was made by the Regina Music Box Company in Rahway, New Jersey. It is master disc #1133 used in the production of 20-3/4” diameter discs for Regina disc music box styles 26, 126, 39, and 139. These table-top disc players featured a 130 steel tongues double comb mechanism. The Regina Company was in business from 1894-1922.
The popularity of “the Pill” created a new market for pharmaceutical companies. For the first time, healthy women would be taking medication for an extended period of time. Pill manufacturers developed unique packaging in order to distinguish their product from those of their competitors and build brand loyalty. Packaging design often incorporated a “memory aid” to assist women in tracking their daily pill regimen, as well as styled cases to allow pills to be discreetly carried in bags and purses. The National Museum of American History’s Division of Medicine and Science’s collection of oral contraceptives illustrates some of the changes that the packaging and marketing of the Pill underwent from its inception in 1960 to the present.
The Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation of Raritan, New Jersey, produced this Ortho-Novum 1/80 brand oral contraceptive in 1974. The 28-pill regimen came in Ortho’s patented DialPak dispenser. The dispenser displays the day of the week, which changes as the patient rotates the rim to dispense the next day’s pill. To maintain the routine of taking a daily pill, many manufacturers began including a fourth week of pills that were inert. This Ortho-Novum regimen contains 28 pills, including 7 tablets that were inert.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Combats bad breath-- reveals the natural brilliance of your teeth. Colgate Tooth powder's penetrating foam helps your tooth brush remove hidden decaying food particles that cause much bad breath. And at the same time Colgate's safe polishing agent quickly removes dull, dingy surface film.
Glass syringe with “Ideal” and “Made in USA.” inscriptions. The text on one end of on the cardboard box reads in part “IDEAL / SYRINGE / 1 C.C. TUBERCULIN / Blue Plunger / EAST RUTHERFORD SYRINGE.” The East Rutherford Syringe Co. introduced the term “IDEAL” in 1920 and filed for a trademark in 1947.
Ref: Samuel Kolodny, Nicholas Micci, and Nicholas Krueger, “Method of Manufacturing Glass Syringes with Interchangeable Pistons and Barrels,” U.S. Patent 2,641,093 (June 9, 1953), assigned to East Rutherford Syringes, Inc.
This illustrated booklet, prepared as an advertisement for Monroe calculating machines, recounts the endeavors of inventor Frank S. Baldwin and businessman Jay Randolph Monroe, partly in Baldwin's words.
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra. side 1: Begin the Beguine; side 2: Oh, Lady Be Good (Victor 20-1551), from the album, Up Swing (RCA Victor P 146). 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1938 and initially released on Victor 27546. Side 2 was recorded in 1939 and initially released on Bluebird B-10430. This album was released in 1944.
This ten-inch one-sided mahogany slide rule is coated with white celluloid. The top is beveled and bears a scale of nine inches whose ends may have broken off. The base has A, D, and K scales. The slide has B, CI, and C scales on one side and S, L, and T scales on the other side. The indicator is glass with plastic edges held together with metal screws. The top plastic edge is broken. The front edge of the rule has a scale of 25 centimeters. A paper table of equivalents and slide rule settings, based on U. S. Bureau of Standards Circular No. 47, is pasted to the back of the rule. Compare the table to 1999.0254.01.
The top of the base is marked in red: PAT. JUNE 5, 1900; KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. N.Y.; MADE IN U.S.A. The right end of the slide is marked in red: < N4053-3 >. The left end of the other side of the slide and the scale of centimeters have the serial number: 350305. The top of the base and under the slide are scratched with the initials: PML. The bottom plastic edge of the indicator is marked: PATENT 2,086,502, with K&E CO. N.Y., on the back of the edge.
Keuffel & Esser of New York sold this slide rule as model N4053-3 from 1925 through 1953. Illustrations in K&E catalogs include the patent date of June 5, 1900, from 1925 through 1934. The serial number suggests the rule was made closer to 1934. However, the patent on the indicator was issued in 1937, suggesting that this part was replaced after the rule was purchased. Compare to 1981.0922.08.
William J. Ellenberger (1908–2008) donated this object. He studied electrical and mechanical engineering at The George Washington University between 1925 and 1934. He then worked for the Potomac Electric Power Company and the National Bureau of Standards. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He was a civilian construction management engineer for the army from 1954 to 1968, when he became a private consultant.
References: Adolf W. Keuffel, "Runner for Slide Rules" (U.S. Patent 2,086,502 issued July 6, 1937); Clark McCoy, "Collection of Pages from K&E Catalogs for the 4053 Family of Slide Rules," http://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/KEModels/ke4053family.htm; Ed Chamberlain, "Estimating K&E Slide Rule Dates," http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/ke/320-k+e_date2.jpg; Wayne E. Feely, "K & E Slide Rules," The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 49, no. 5 (June 1996): 50–52; "The GW Engineering Hall of Fame 2006 Inductees," http://www.weas.gwu.edu/ifaf/hall_of_fame_inductees_2006.php.
Helen Morgan. side 1: Body and Soul; side 2: Something to Remember You By (Victor 27683), from the album, Helen Morgan (Victor P 102). 78 rpm. Both tracks were recorded in 1930 and initially released on Victor 22532. This album was released in 1941.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Aids in the relief of minor nasal congestion due to head colds by helping to keep nose clear and clean.
Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees. side 1: Kitty from Kansas City; side 2: I'm Just a Vagabond Lover (RCA Victor 27844), from the album, Heigh Ho Everybody (RCA Victor P 111). 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1937 and initially released on Bluebird B-7140. Side 2 was recorded in 1942. This album was released in 1942.